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NITED STATES GEORGE Q. SEAMAN, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

TIME-ALARM BED.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 516,614, dated March13, 1894 Application filed August 22, 1893. Serial No. 483,740- (Nomodel.) I

.To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, GEORGE Q. SEAMAN, of Brooklyn, in the county ofKings and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Time-AlarmBed, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The invention relates to time alarm beds, such as shown and described inthe Letters Patent of the United States, No. 47 9,307, granted to me onthe date of July 19, 1892.

The object of the present invention is to provide a new and improvedstill alarm bed, which is simple anddurable in construction and arrangedto cause the occupant to roll out of the bed at a predetermined time.

The invention consists of a pivoted bed bottom, connected at its freeend by ropes with a drum removably journaled in the ends of bed, thesaid drum forming a side for the bed.

The invention also consists of certain parts and details andcombinations of the same, as will be herinafter described and thenpointed out in the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings forming a part ofthis specification, in which similar letters of reference indicatecorresponding parts in all the views.

Figure l is a cross section of the improvement as arranged for a doublebed, on the line 1-1 of Fig. 2. Fig. 2 is a sectional plan view of thesame on the line 22 of Fig. 1; and Fig. 3 is a sectional side elevationof part of the drum and its support.

' The bedstead is provided with the usual head A, connected by the sidesB and O with the foot, the side B being fixed, while the side O is madein the form of a drum and arranged to drop out of its supports in thehead and foot, as hereinafter more fully described. The bottom D of thebedstead, when arranged for a double bed, is made of the fixed part Dand the swinging part D hinged at its inner end at D to the head andfoot, near the middle thereof, as illustrated in the drawings.

When the improvement is applied to a single bedstead, then the entirebottom D is hinged near the side B, so that the hinged portion forms thecomplete bottom for the bed. The hinged bottom part D extends with itsfree end to within a short distance of the side 0, as plainly shown inthe drawings. The side O is provided at its ends with recesses 0,adapted to engage pivot pins E secured in the head A and foot of the bedthe said recesses being arranged in such a manner that when the side Ois in a normal position, asillustrated in the drawings, then the side 0is supported on the pivot pins, and when the side 0 makes a halfrevolution it automatically drops from the said pivot pins E, as thesaid recesses O extend to the bottom of the side 0, as shown in Fig. 3.

On the side 0 and near each end thereof, is secured a rope or chain F,extending around part of the said side to connect at its lower end withan arm D attached to the bed bottom part D On the end of the side 0 nextto the head A is arranged a lug C engaged by the hook end G of a lever Gfulcrumed at G to the head A of the bedstead. The inner end of the saidlever G is provided with a pin G engaging a longitudinally extendingslot Hformed in an arm H fulcrumed loosely on the pivot D for the bottomD The free end of the arm H is connected with an upwardly-extending ropeor chain I, carrying at its upper end a ring I, through which passes asecond rope J, provided at its ends with rings J and J The rings J and J2 engage longitudinally-extending slots K and K respectively of the armsK and K respectively, pivoted at K to the casing of a double clock L ofany approved construction and atstead,'as shown in Fig. 1. The free endsof the pivoted arms K and K are connected by chains N and Nrespectively, with drums O and 0 respectively, forming part of thedouble clock and adapted to be actuated by the same at a predeterminedtime. The mechanism for releasing the drums O and O at the same time, isof the construction usually found in ordinary alarm clocks, so that afurther description of the same is not deemed necessary.

The operation is as follows :When the several parts are in the positionillustrated in Fig. 1, then the hinged bed bottom part D extendshorizontally, as the rope F is wound on the drum side 0, and the latteris locked in place by the hook G engaging the lug C The free end of thelever G engages, with its pin G the inner end of the slot H of the armH, which latter is held in nearly a horizontal tached preferably to thehead A of the bed- I position by the rope I supported on the rope J,engaging with its rings the now horizontally extending pivoted arms Kand K, held in this position by the chains N and N being 5 wound up onthe clock drums O and Now, when either of the clocks, or both, in-

dicate the time on which the mechanism is to operate, then the drums Oand O are released, whereby the chains N and N unwind [O and permit thearms K and K to swing downward, so that the rings J and J slide towardthe free end of the said arms, thus permitting the rope I to drop andthe arm H to swing downward. The movement of thelatter causes the leverG to swing downward at the end carrying the pin G as the latter iscarried along by the said arm H. The hook end G of the said lever Gdisengages, by this swinging movement of the lever, the lug so that thedrum side 0 is unlocked and is free to revolve on its pins E, the weightof the occupant on the bottom D causing a rapid turning of the drum andunwinding of the ropes F, until the said drum side has made one-half 2 5revolution when it will drop from its supporting pivot pins E.

It will be seen that when the drum side 0 3 ward, and when finally thedrum side 0 drops from the pins E, then the bottom part D will swingcompletely downward into the position shown in dotted lines in Fig. 1,that is, until the arms D rest upon the floor. The occupant of the bedbottom part D will roll down the inclined bottom part and be thusawakened without disturbing the occupant on the fixed bed bottom part D.

I prefer to make a clock L having double 4 drums, so that in case onefails, the other will act to accomplish the result as above described,that is,to trip the lever G so as to release the drum side 0. It is,however, understood that a single clock directly connected by one arm Kwith the ring I will fully answer the purpose.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secureby Letters Patent- 5o 1. A still time alarm bed, comprisingapivoted bedbottom, a drum removably journaled in the ends of the bedstead andforming a side for the bedstead, the said drum being connected with thefree end of the said bed bottom, and a locking mechanism, substantiallyas described, for holding the said drum side in place, as set forth.

2. A still time alarm bed, comprising a pivoted bed bottom, a drumremovably j ournaled in the ends of the bedstead and forming a side forthe same, the said drum being connected with the free end of the saidbed bottom, a lever for lockin g the said drum in place, and amechanism,substantially as described, controlled from a clock, forreleasing the said lever to permit the drum to revolve and drop from itssupports, as set forth.

3. A still time alarm bed, provided with pivot pins at its head andfoot, and with a side having end recesses adapted to engage said pivotpins, and arranged to drop from said pins, substantially as shown anddescribed.

4. A still time alarm bed, provided with a clock having a drum heldnormallyin a locked position, a chain adapted to wind on the said drum,and a slotted arm pivoted on the clock casing and connected at its freeend with the said chain, substantially as shown and described.

5. A still time alarm bed, comprising a pivoted bed bottom, ropesconnected with the free end of the said bed bottom, a drum connectedwith the said ropes and provided at its ends with recesses, pivot pinsengaging the said recesses to permit the drum to turn, a lug on the saiddrum, a lever engaging the said lug for holding the drum in alocked p0-sion, a slotted arm engagingapin on the free end of the said lover, arope connected with the said arm, a pivoted slotted arm for supportingthe said rope, and a chain connected with the said pivoted slotted armand adapted to wind on a drum controlled by a time mechanism,substantially as shown and described.

GEORGE Q. SEAMAN. \Vitnesses:

ALFRED Lunco'rr, C. SED GWIOK.

